Ya'll are making me look meanly at my own dorm system, here.

I had a tiny little single which shared a bathroom with the other tiny little single next door. I had a desk, a dress and a bed. and a little one foot path between each thing. The desk didn't really fit properly, and I had to move it one way or the other to get into either the closet or the bathroom, both doors couldn't be opened at once!

Being a child bride I lived in a house with my DH in college. It had advantages. Brendon roomed with 2 other guys in a fairly large 2 bedroom dorm with nice size LR and Kitchen.

My first freshman year roommate was supposed to share a room with a good HS friend, but the university screwed up her assignment and put them on different floors, so I swaped with her friend after a week. The new roommate was very nice and I liked her a lot, but when I became friends with two girls down the hall, and one of them was having problems with her roomie, we all mutually agreed that I would swap again and move in with my friend at the end of the first semester. Big mistake--the girl ended up being "Kathy", all the way to putting post-it notes on the window so I wouldn't close it (even though she was not in the room and I was freezing) and on her bike so I wouldn't move it (even though it was sitting in the middle of the room and I kept on tripping over it and, again, she was nowhere to be found). She was such a bitch, but I was so sick and tired of moving that I stuck it out for the rest of the second semester.

My sophmore and junior years I had the same roommate, but when she decided to move into an apartment for senior year, I had to scramble again. Ended up with two different roommates that year, but this time I stayed put and they moved in and out. The two summers I stayed on campus, I sublet apartments. First summer, one of the guys I was subletting from stayed in his bedroom for the first two weeks of the session, and then went back home, and a friend of mine sublet that bedroom for the rest of the summer. Second summer, I was pretty much on my own, and it was wonderful!

I've had to share apartments a few times since I graduated, and I am so relieved that I am at a point financially where I don't have to worry about doing that again.

I would live in a dorm now if they'd let me bring my dog.

During my lat year at the first college I went to (for graphic arts and electronics...) I was in a four-man corner room. as what happens, one moved off campus and the other two eventually made requests to move in with buddies.

By christmas I was alone in the place.

Why didn't I have new roommates? The college had the weird system for transferrs. You had to request to move to a different room, and they processed that. After the move, the person with an empty space would have to contact housing and *tell them* they had a space.

Apparently they seldom reviewed the vacancies because at the time, the dropout rate was such that by the end of the first quarter there were no people in the overflow rooms and they really didn't need to pursue the vacancies unless they ran out of "reported" ones.

None of it was computerized at the time.

I ended up taking down one of the bunk beds and making it into a "couch" in one of the rooms, and stacking up two of the desks to make more space. Used a third desk as a center island food prep/poker table.

I set my stereo up on the top bunk of my other bed.

Most days, though? I love living alone

Me, too, Steph. I love having my own little space. I shared a room with at least one sibling (sometimes 2) until I was 16. In undergrad, I shared dorm rooms. Grad school, I was on my own in the dorms (I was a Res. Hall Director, so I had my own apt. in the dorm).

All the schools I went to had sinks in the dorm rooms if they weren't suites (2 doubles sharing a bath). And, they were all tiny rooms.

Syracuse University

NO! If you have any love for your boys ... please encourage them to go anywhere esle!

Mikal, it's just summer camp.

They are only 8 and 11. Summer basketball camp. Cool for them with the SU coaching staff and their quite nice athletic facilities. Also staying in the dorms will be fun. It will be a few years before I think college.

I do have a friend attending SU. He is on a soccer scholarship. He is Ecuadorian, born and raised in Miami. Seeing snow for the first time last year was quite interesting for him since they broke records.